A research team from the University of Basrah, led by the President of the University of Basrah, Prof. Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, the Dean of the College of Medicine, Prof. Dr. Mortada Muhammad Salih Al-Musafer, the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Prof. Dr. Falah Hassan Shri, and Prof. Dr. Ihsan Aidan Al-Saimri, and a number of teachers of the microbiology branch in the College of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy obtained a patent entitled: Development and design of a new Iraqi global carrier medium BASRAYATHA VTM for transporting and preserving samples of the emerging corona virus covid-19 and other viruses.
A new Iraqi global vector medium was prepared under the name BASRAYATHA VTM, which is used to store samples taken from patients infected with Covid-19 and other viruses for the purpose of transferring and diagnosing them using internationally approved molecular methods. The medium can be used for preserving and transmitting viruses with nucleic acid RNA and DNA. The medium contains, in its composition, nutritious broth and bovine albumin serum, in addition to containing a group of salts with special concentrations commensurate with the need of the Corona virus and the infected cell for life.
